On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:30 PM, George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com>
wrote:

> On 08/03/16 15:30, Malcolm Crossley wrote:
> > Nested hap code assumed implict bitmask semantics of the p2m_access_t
> > enum prior to C/S 4c63692d7c38c5ac414fe97f8ef37b66e05abe5c
> >
> > The change to the enum ordering broke this assumption and caused
> functional
> > problems for the nested hap code. As it may be error prone to audit and
> find
> > all other p2m_access users assuming bitmask semantics, instead restore
> the
> > previous enum order and make it explict that bitmask semantics are to be
> > preserved for the read, write and execute access types.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.cross...@citrix.com>
>
> Looks good; but following up Jan's point, could you do a brief survey of
> the places where the p2m_access values are used, and confirm that none
> of them now implicitly assume that p2m_access_rwx is zero?
>
> (Or Tamas, can you say that you're reasonably certain nothing has now
> come to depend on the value of p2m_access_rwx being zero?)
>

Yes, from my perspective it's all fine as checks of p2m_access values are
done with the enum names and not the values directly.

Tamas
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